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List:  CSPAN Booknotes


Lindbergh (1998) - A. Scott Berg (-)  (Grade:A+)

The Greatest Generation (1999) - Tom Brokaw (-)  (Grade:D+)

Reflections on a Ravaged Century (2000) - Robert Conquest (07/15/1917 -08/03/2015)  (Grade:B)

What it Takes : The Way to the White House (1992) - Richard Ben Cramer (06/12/1950 -01/07/2013)  (Grade:A+)

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (1996) - Joseph J. Ellis (-)  (Grade:A-)

Fools' Names, Fools' Faces (1996) - Andrew Ferguson (6/28/1956 -)  (Grade:A)

Freedom from Fear : The United States, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States, Vol 9) (1999) - David M. Kennedy (-)  (Grade:A)

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (1987) - Paul Kennedy (6/17/1945 -)  (Grade:C+)

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (2003) - Erik Larson (-)  (Grade:A)

Workin' on the Chain Gang: Shaking off the Dead Hand of History (2000) - Walter Mosley (01/12/1952 -)  (Grade:F)

Whittaker Chambers: A Biography (1997) - Sam Tanenhaus (-)  (Grade:A)

Making Patriots (2001) - Walter Berns (5/03/1919 -1/10/2015)  (Grade:A)

Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (1992) - Al Gore (1948-)  (Grade:F)

The Kinder, Gentler Military: Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars? (2000) - Stephanie Gutmann (-)  (Grade:B+)

Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet (1991) - Lewis B. Puller, Jr. (1945-1994)  (Grade:B+)

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1988) - Neil Sheehan (-)  (Grade:C)

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (1998) - Simon Winchester (-)  (Grade:B+)

1998)   The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (1998) - Iris Chang (-)  (Grade:A)

1998)   Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice (1998) - Lani Guinier (-)  (Grade:D+)

2000)   Bobos in Paradise : The New Upper Class and How They Got There (2000) - David Brooks ( -)  (Grade:C)